Perhaps the two most infamous villains in all of Shakespearian literature are the characters of Iago in Othello and Claudius in Hamlet. ... One such example is when Iago describes Cassio's fight with Roderigo to his commander, Othello. ... Implanting the suspicion of Desdemona's infidelity into Othello's mind is especially easy, considering the fact that Othello and Desdemona were newlyweds and Othello had already begun to have doubts as to how she could love an uncultured Moor as himself. Iago uses Othello's insecurities as well as his trust and confidence in Iago to tu...

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Through examination of Richard II, Hamlet and Othello, the development of the garden transforms from a political allegory to a metaphor for the human body. ... The need to control these weeds, or "faults in human character- becomes clear in Othello when Othello believes he has to control his wife's desires and prevent her from betraying him. ... Even though the image of the weed is featured in Othello, the weed refers to the uncontrollability of Desdemona's desires, rather than the "rankness- featured in Hamlet. When Othello is persuaded of Desdemona's guilt, he says, "O thou ...

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There are many examples of this situation in Shakespearean plays; in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Claudius commits his evil acts because of his greed for the throne; in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is so moved by her greed for wealth and power that she forces her husband to commit murder, and in Othello, Moor of Venice, Iago rips apart the lives of innocent people because of his greed for power and attention. ... Iago, from Othello, the Moor of Venice, appears to epitomize the phrase "pure evil," and at first his actions seem to originate from this simple cause. ... Because of his self-indulgence...

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Undoubtedly, Kyd is the one whom these contributions have been relatively attributed to in the world of academia and in the institutionalized sphere of scholarly-based knowledge; however, in the real world--made up of the average human sponge that gathers their knowledge from less than scholarly sources-- Shakespeare is the one who is praised for his ingenious depictions of these contributions in works such as Hamlet and Othello. ...

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